Its owners and some historical connections - Lackham Countryside ...

The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
"Of your charyte pray for the soule of Thomas Gore
esq late lord of this Town the whyche deceased the
XXiind daie in Iuly A Dmi mdxxxv on whose soule Jhu
have mercy Amen" 97
This is a different arrangement of the arms to the quartered version
seen above and gives
Fig. 11 Gore impaling Keynall, *
It has been noted that
[Thomas Gore] was the last of his family to be buried by a
priest of the old religion with a requet inscribed above his
bones that those who survived him would pray for his soul 98
Elizabeth survived him by 22 years and later married George Worth of
Dauntsey. She was buried at Dauntsey in 1554 99
Thomas was the ancestor of the branch of the Gore family that lived at
Sopworth 100 . They had two sons, Gyles and Thomas, a daughter Elizabeth
and they lived at Sherston. Elizabeth married Richard Bremman 101 s
97 Gore, T (1666) Gore, T (1666) Syntagma Genealogicum or A genealogical
treatise of the family of the Gores of Aldrington or Alderton p114 .
98 Badeni, J (1966) Wiltshire Forefathers p1
99 Thursday January 24 th 1554
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